Category Archives for "Courage"

We left everything to join Youth with a Mission as missionaries. I left a career of 19 yrs. I left an income that supported our family. My wife left her beloved dog, cat and pet sitting business. We left our oldest daughter. We left our home. We left our family and friends. My oldest son […]

I did not want to get up. I could hear my trainer from the corner of the ring yelling in slow motion Get Up! I lost count of the several rounds I had gone at this point. My face was flat on the mat. My mouth guard hanging out of my mouth, drool. I thought. “I can’t […]

I am lost. I don’t belong here. My wife asked me why I was going to the breath and the clay event. I said, I don’t know except I felt a ‘God prompt’ to go. On arrival, I felt out-of-place. I am not one of them. I am diffused light. They are singular and bright. […]

He stared at his reflection in disbelief and shock until a single tear rolled down his long nose into the water, then he awoke. The colt woke up surrounded by straight rows of dirt as far as he could see. He looked to the south and saw a dust cloud rising toward him. Out of […]

I have a love/hate relationship with Bread & Chips. I hate that I love them sooooooo much! I’d come home from work on so many nights and cracker binge, chip binge, and bread binge. Ugh! This has been going on for some time to the dismay of my waistline. I’d feel bad about myself after […]

“You were born an original, don’t die a copy”- John Mason I never seem to fit. I feel like an odd-shaped puzzle piece looking for the puzzle where I belong. I pride myself in being different from everyone else. But I’ve also feel lonely, misunderstood and like an outsider. At times that feeling drove me […]

When my son was very young like 3 or 4 years old, He had a dream of heaven. In his dream He saw a river that ran through the center of heaven. He described the river as clear with multi-color reflections like a rainbow. He described the river as coming from under a throne. On […]

The world is negative. Anytime I start to dream, there are internal & external distractors ready to tell me how what I dream can not and will not happen. They detail all the dangers, pitfalls and awful things that await me. Their voice sounds like…. Don’t hope. Face reality. Just settle. Settle into safety. Settle […]

How can people that look so OUTWARDLY AWESOME not be as awesome as they appear? I “know” that this is true but I am sucked in again and again by the image people portray on social media as the reality of who they are, how great their relationships are and how much fun or impact […]

I remember when I was just a boy; my father would take my friends and I fishing at The Broad River in Western NC. Dad loved to catch Bass in the local rivers and always had colorful stories about his adventures with his brothers. It was a boy’s dream. I remember the first Bass I […]

I was 34. I had just woken up from another terrible night sleep on the couch at a college friend’s house. It was 4:45am and I had to get to my 2nd job by 5:30am driving taxis. My wife & I were separated. I had two little ones, a seminary degree, a failed attempt as […]

Loren Cunningham had the courage to walk away from what was good to pursue God’s best as a young man in his 20’s. He left the security of family traditions, his denominational heritage and an opportunity for a wealthy secure future to purse God’s dream over his life. Loren is my #1 hero in the […]